pip install failing with: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied on directory

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Rather than using sudo with pip install, It’s better to first try pip install --user. If this fails then take a look at the top post here.

The reason you shouldn’t use sudo is as follows:

When you run pip with sudo, you are running arbitrary Python code from the Internet as a root user, which is quite a big security risk. If someone puts up a malicious project on PyPI and you install it, you give an attacker root access to your machine.

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